When that person rediscovered this container after several weeks or months and took a sip of what was inside, he or she made one of the most important discoveries in human history: the discovery of ...

This four-bedroom, four-bathroom Victorian standout nestled in the heart of Old Milton stands on a rare double lot and has a ...

Since January 2025, the tomb of Emperor Otto the Great in Magdeburg Cathedral has been the subject of extensive investigations. After the stone sarcophagus was opened in early March 2025, the work ...

A team of restoration workers in Dijon, France, pulled up a section of stone flooring inside the Church of Saint Philibert ...

Archaeologists say the marble coffin is the first of its kind found in the region. The story it depicts is more often seen in ...

Thousands of years before a modern telescope would ever see first light, ... Nesitaudjatakhet’s sarcophagus is not the only Egyptian cosmological vision that mirrors the Milky Way.

The skull was initially uncovered by Austrian archaeologist Josef Keil and his team in 1929. They found a water-filled sarcophagus within the ruins of the “Octagon,” a grand structure along the main ...

'Santa Claus' sarcophagus. ... whose spirit of generosity is still celebrated in the modern world more than 1,600 years later. "We believe that we have encountered a sarcophagus to be in situ ...

After years of excavation work, the leader of an archeological expedition at the Church of St. Nicholas in Demre, Turkey, announced this week that her team has found a sarcophagus that may contain ...

The sarcophagus belonging to Saint Nicholas, the man behind the legend of Santa Claus, is believed to have been uncovered in Turkey during an excavation. See the photos.